The Trailer For HBO's New 'Silicon Valley' Comedy Looks ... Awful

We love Mike Judge. He's the man who wrote and directed Office
Space, possibly one of the best American comedies of all time and
certainly the most brutally accurate dissection of work life in
the 1990s ever committed to film. And, of course, he gave the
world Beavis & Butt-Head, and King of the Hill, two of the
most strikingly original and idiosyncratic animated comedies on
TV.

So let's not judge the entirety of his new project, HBO's
"Silicon Valley," on its teaser trailer. We should withhold
judgment because the trailer makes the show look like garbage.

But the trailer seems to indicate that there won't be much of
that in store. It begins with this framing device: "For thousands
of years, guys like us have gotten the s--- kicked out of us."
Basically, it's Revenge of the Nerds in San Francisco. All the
stereotypes are there: The Zuckerberg one, the fat one with a
beard, the Indian one.